Safety Administrator

Position Summary:

The Safety Administrator is responsible for developing, implementation, and auditing policies/procedures that comply with all state, federal, and local environmental and safety laws and regulations with a focus on implementing a zero harm culture. The Safety Administrator is also responsible for site security policies/procedures and management of site security personnel.

Key Responsibilities:

Essential duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide direction for all EHS&S programs
• Champion a zero harm culture
• Act as a liaison with any environmental, health, and safety agency as needed.
• Maintain the plants Safety Manual
• Conduct all Power Industrial Truck training and maintain all associated training documents
• Assist with all new hire orientation and initial safety training
• Develop environmental and safety risk assessments and appropriate controls.
• Maintain policies and procedures for fire prevention and controlling hazardous spills in accordance with government regulations and insurance requirements
• Evaluate hazards for environmental, health, safety and security risks. Propose and implement policies/procedures to mitigate risks identified.
• Maintain and audit Safety Ambassador Program/Process
• Conduct training session for emergency preparedness, confined space, electrical safety, machine guarding, fall protection, power industrial truck safety, hazardous communication and lockout/tagout
• Assist all plant personnel with understanding OSHA requirements and standards
• Develop, monitor, track and report appropriate EHS&S KPI's
• Lead the incident investigation process to ensure root cause and corrective actions are identified and completed
• Utilize incident log data to identify opportunities for improvements to our safety policies/procedures
• Perform Safety audits of all areas of the facility and utilize findings  for short term and long term improvement projects to our safety policies/procedures

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety and health, environmental science or equivalent experience
• 3 to 5 years professional safety/workers compensation management experience within a manufacturing setting
• Completion of 10 hour and 30 hour OSHA courses.

Additional Requirements:

• Willingness to work overtime and/or flexible schedule
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• J.D. Edwards experience an advantage
• Sound knowledge of Workman's Comp System
• Strong project management, organization and time management skills including ability to manage conflicting priorities
• Must be a self-starter, motivator, problem solver and coach.
• Must be a forward thinking, driven, and engaged team player.